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anyways, barring the coolness of zenkichi, no comments about the foreshadowing of his dad? he might truly be just normal, or there's still somethings unknown about him. difficult to tell, im hoping this means he'll eventually show up.
then we can now see the kind of guy who fell for hitomi.

A pedophile. Sorry couldn't help myself. But damn man Zenkichi sacrificed his arm for the plan to work. Then there's the implied biggest balls in the manga.

Kinda interesting that it seems to imply that Ajimu died in order to protect Zenkichi who she believed had the only chance of winning rather than Medaka.

I liked that too. once you remember her reaction to his sealing in the black jet wedding arc...
it brings a bit more question on whether or not this was spontaneous, and if zenkichi is really just a supporting protagonist for this manga.

Dear Nisio. You played Shounen Nakama Power straight. I am disappointed, unless it's going to be subverted next chapter.

Not really Nakama power. Nakama power is illogical powerup through friendship in order to defeat the villain. Zenkichi sacrificed his freaking arm to trick Iihiko to allow shiranui to pretty much kill herself or dam near close to it.

I admit I was wrong about the part of Medaka defeating Shiranui.
However Medaka will certainly have the final say in this arc, just like all arcs.
Now that everyone bar her is dead, she will save everyone somehow.
Either that or something ridiculous happens like Ajimu stomping Fukurou and then Medaka having the final say.

Also in case I am misunderstood I don't dislike this Manga or Medaka. I am just saying what will happen considering the nature of this manga (I do understand where the hate comes from though)
Personally I don't take this manga seriously. Its like fun in a box ( well more like a (Zen's) journey to open Medaka's Box lol)

Finally Fukurou next chapter. Everything may very well have been his plan to get into Medaka's pants lol and also get everyone out of the way.

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Originally Posted by novalysis

Dear Nisio. You played Shounen Nakama Power straight. I am disappointed, unless it's going to be subverted next chapter.

Zen's plan was actually quite ingenious, when you think about it. He already has what the other Style users lacked, which was "understanding" of the feelings of himself and others(why Ajimu suicided for, apparently), rathern than just "knowing".

Simply defeating Iihiko with non-sense like "The opponent is strong, therefore I win" would have been utterly useless, since Iihiko would then just target another body for possession, but more importantly, it would kill Shiranui, therefore failing Zen's primary objective. He needed Iihiko to kill himself.

So he surmised that he had to fight Iihiko to exactly the point where the destroyer would be desperate enough to switch back to Shiranui in-order to stop Zenkichi from fighting - all within a strict time limit!
I see now why Zen sacrificed his arm. It was the only way to properly create that opening with the given time, where Iihiko knew that he would need to pull-up a fast one to be able to stop Zenkichi's attack.

That same fast-one which would be his ultimate undoing.

Goddamn. Zen is the motherfawking Batman.

But Shiranui also gets some credit for the awesome plan. After all, They knew.

All-in-all, it was a really brilliant plan. Props to Nishio for pulling something like that off so well.